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• Marvel Rivals looks set to get its first balance adjustments soon as a leaked schedule claims Wolverine is getting even stronger as Hela and Hawkeye get nerfed

  06-01-2025 13:58 via gamesradar.com
  
  The next few days are apparently set to be pretty busy for Marvel Rivals fans, as it's been claimed that we can expect preview videos for a couple of upcoming new Fantastic Four heroes being added to the shooter, as well as the reveal of buffs and nerfs for some of the existing characters.While currently unconfirmed, a supposedly leaked schedule has been shared on Twitter by @RivalsLeaks – the same one has also reached r/MarvelRivalsLeaks where user Lower_Island6120 claims it's been "confi
  
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• This dev's first Steam release, a $3 banger with 3 hours of fun, is now one of the highest-rated games of the past month at 1,639 reviews averaging 98% positive

  07-01-2025 23:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  I'm a sucker for a good incremental game, but I've got to admit I never have the patience to truly master the endgame of, say, a Cookie Clicker. That's why I jumped to attention the second I saw Digseum, a $3 take on incrementals that's less than three hours long and has already garnered 98% positive reviews on Steam.Digseum's Steam page describes it as a "short and sweet experience" with around two-and-a-half hours of playtime, during which you'll be "digging up ancient relics and building the
  
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• Diablo 4 Season 7 faces new competition: the original Diablo, which is coming to Xbox Game Pass just a week earlier

  07-01-2025 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rightful heir to your attention Diablo 4 Season 7 is facing a little friendly fire from the original Diablo, which will make it onto Xbox Game Pass exactly one week before the content update releases. Xbox shared the news in a January 7 announcement, which lists everything coming to Game Pass in the first half of the month, including Lightyear Frontier and EA Sports UFC 5. It also, rightly, describes the legendary 1997 game Diablo as "the groundbreaking action-RPG that defined the genre.""W
  
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• Marvel Rivals devs know Duelists are dominant, so they're nerfing the biggest offenders and giving Cap and Venom some help in Season 1

  07-01-2025 23:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals is set to kick off its first proper season later this week, and while Netease hasn't yet provided a full list of patch notes for us to peruse, it has detailed some notable balance changes coming in the update. Top line? Ranged Duelists are getting the nerf hammer."As Season 0 closes, our tireless analysis, along with player feedback, has revealed a rich tapestry of team compositions in regular matches, showcasing exciting diversity," lead combat designer Zhiyong says in the latest
  
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• More layoffs reportedly hit Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League dev Rocksteady, including another cut to QA

  07-01-2025 23:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  A mere week into 2025, a new report claims Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady, previously and better known for the sterling Batman Arkham games, was hit with another wave of layoffs right at the end of last year.That's according to Eurogamer, citing half a dozen developers affected by the cuts at Rocksteady. Parent company Warner Bros. has not responded to the outlet's request for comment. This apparent cut follows a previous wave of layoffs which gutted the studio's QA
  
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• Severance season 2 gets a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score with first reviews calling it "remarkable, unique, and mind-bending"

  07-01-2025 22:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  The first reviews for Severance season 2 have arrived, and the long-awaited new season now holds a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.The sci-fi thriller series, created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller, first hit Apple TV Plus in 2022. The show stars Adam Scott as Mark, a widow who decides to undergo the controversial process of becoming a "severed" employee at the mysterious Lumon Industries. Despite being immediately renewed for a second season, production delays, strikes, and ot
  
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• The Witcher 4's gorgeous reveal trailer was "pre-rendered" on Nvidia's $2,000 RTX 5090

  07-01-2025 19:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Witcher 4's full reveal trailer opened with the notice that it was "pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU." Now that Nvidia has lifted the veil on its eye-wateringly expensive RTX 5090, the GPU maker has confirmed that the Witcher 4 trailer was made using the $2,000 GPU."The long-awaited sequel, The Witcher IV, recently premiered with a stunning reveal trailer, which we can now confirm was pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a GeForce RTX 5090," Nvidia confi
  
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• Lenovo makes its new Legion Go family official, and I'm fixated on the handheld maker's $499.99 "Steam Deck"

  07-01-2025 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Following months of rumors, the new Lenovo Legion Go S has finally arrived, and I'm pretty hyped to see there's a SteamOS version. While I wouldn't go as far to call the laptop maker's new handheld a Steam Deck, it should help normalize PC operating systems that are actually build for portable play.In a fresh CES 2025 announcement, Lenovo officially introduces us to three new best gaming handheld contenders. There are three new models in total, with two following the company's new 8-inch Legion
  
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• Helldivers 2 director says the reason saluting the flag makes it go faster is that all the devs did it anyway, "so one of the coders added it as an Easter egg"

  07-01-2025 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  There's been a rumor circulating in the Helldivers 2 community that saluting during the Raise the Flag missions actually makes the flag erect faster. Well, the game's creative director just confirmed it's true. When I shared the video showing the technique with my squadmates they laughed at me. Who's laughing now, Rick?During the Raise the Flag missions, you have to get to a location, call down the flag of Super Earth, and defend it with your life against the hordes of enemies until it stands pr
  
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• Skyrim was 2,403 days old when The Elder Scrolls 6 trailer dropped - and now that same trailer is also 2,403 days old

  07-01-2025 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Folks, we made it. The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced so long ago that its first and only trailer is now as old as Skyrim was at the time of its reveal, which makes the fact that we've not had any further glimpses of it since feel that much worse. As IGN reports, Reddit user RoboPup has highlighted that it's been around six years and seven months since that fateful trailer was revealed. Specifically, it was shown off at E3 2018 (RIP) on June 10 – at least, in certain timezones, as in t
  
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• Matt Reeves says that Robert Pattinson's Batman will join the DCU only if it "makes sense"

  07-01-2025 18:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Robert Pattinson is the star of Matt Reeves' ongoing Batman trilogy, but could the actor also play a big part in the wider DC Universe? With James Gunn and Peter Safran leading a new era for the franchise, anything is possible, but only if it "makes sense".That's what Reeves answered when asked about the possibility of Pattinson joining the DCU, making clear that the focus right now for both of them is on the sequel to 2022's The Batman."It really comes down to whether or not it makes sense," th
  
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• Solo Leveling season 2 makes it one of the highest-rated anime series in Crunchyroll history at over 400,000 reviews

  07-01-2025 18:10 via gamesradar.com
  
  Solo Leveling season 2 only premiered a few days ago, and it's already breaking records on Crunchyroll. The first episode became the most liked premiere episode in the history of the streaming service in less than 24 hours, and now the show has also broke the record for the most ratings.As reported by fansite SoloLevelAnime, Solo Leveling's season 2 premiere episode has reached more than 400k ratings on Crunchyroll.The immediate results for the show are far from surprising, giving the solid fan
  
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• PlayStation boss says good old-fashioned consoles like PS5 are their priority, but as PC gaming grows Sony also wants to reach players elsewhere

  07-01-2025 18:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a recently published interview, Sony platform business group CEO Hideaki Nishino affirms that PlayStation consoles are here to stay, though the company still wants to reach players on PC and elsewhere.Speaking to Famitsu (translated via DeepL and compared with Google Translate), Nishino says that since many of us are still playing PS4 games and "the number of PS5 games is increasing," he doesn't see PlayStation majorly changing any time soon. He thinks consoles will be the center of Sony's ga
  
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• Squid Game season 2 has a goof like Game of Thrones's Starbucks cup error

  07-01-2025 18:02 via gamesradar.com
  
  Squid Game season 2 has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it background goof that's similar to the infamous Game of Thrones Starbucks cup mistake.In season 2, episode 7 – the dramatic finale, which sees Gi-hun and his friends (and the Front Man in disguise) try to overthrow the games from within – a camera operator can be glimpsed in the dormitory that houses all the contestants as the fight rages on.If you open the episode on Netflix and skip to the 22:40 second mark, you'll be able to spot t
  
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• Assassin's Creed Shadows has "unclimbable surfaces" that force you to find physical handholds because Ubisoft wants to be "more thoughtful" about parkour

  07-01-2025 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Assassin's Creed Shadows out in a matter of weeks, Ubisoft is starting to drip feed us a whole bunch of info on the game's mechanics. Now the devs have provided an in-depth explanation of how parkour works, and maybe the most notable detail is that - in contrast to many Assassin's Creed games - you won't be able to climb over literally everything.Shadows will feature some number of "unclimbable surfaces" without physical handholds to grab onto. "This is a pretty big deal for us," according
  
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• No doubt to Nintendo's fury, you can now pre-order a Switch 2 case on Amazon, and the dock has apparently leaked too

  07-01-2025 17:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  At this point, I'm convinced that Nintendo fans might spontaneously combust if we don't get any official Switch 2 news at some point soon, because yet another leaked image has apparently surfaced online, all while pre-orders have opened up on Amazon for a protective Switch 2 case.It's claimed that the new image – which has been shared by journalist and author Laura Kate Dale, who reports that it's "from a trusted source" – shows the console's dock, specifically, part of the back of i
  
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• Shure debuts a new way to make audio recording a breeze at CES with its new MV7i mic with a built-in audio interface and I want one

  07-01-2025 17:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Each year CES is home to a myriad of world firsts in the tech world, and this year's event is no different. Shure, a brand synonymous with some of the best microphones you can get your hands on, has just launched the MV7i Smart Microphone, the first-ever XLR microphone to have its own built-in audio interface.According to Shure's CES press release, the MV7i microphone is designed to "simplify the way creators record audio" as it allows connecting a second XLR microphone, or an instrument like a
  
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• Anime giant Crunchyroll is getting back into manga with a new reading app coming this year promising "brand-new and beloved titles"

  07-01-2025 17:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Anime streamer Crunchyroll has announced the launch of a new manga reading app that will be added to the service later this year. Although details are currently sparse, it's known that Crunchyroll Manga will be launched as a premium add-on that will allow Crunchyroll subscribers (initially only in the United States and Canada) to read digital manga releases on iOS and Android devices."Crunchyroll Manga will be a premiere online manga app that carries catalogs from renowned publishers, offer
  
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• Scream star runs from another serial killer in the first trailer for Valentine's Day horror movie Heart Eyes

  07-01-2025 16:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Scream star Mason Gooding faces another brutal serial killer in Heart Eyes, a new Valentine's Day horror movie coming up next month. The slasher has just released its first full trailer, introducing a brand-new serial killer, and promising lots of blood and violence.The story follows a couple, played by Gooding and Cruel Summer's Olivia Holt, who become the target for the dangerous Heart Eyes Killer. For the past several years, the masked killer has wreaked havoc on Valentine's Day, stalking an
  
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• World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran says he saw Riot and Blizzard "seemingly abandon" approaching development "from a place of humility instead of arrogance"

  07-01-2025 16:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Polishing games is important, but one former World of Warcraft and League of Legends MMO veteran believes that developers can also go too far with it – something he argues Blizzard Entertainment and Riot Games have both become guilty of. Greg Street previously served as lead systems designer on WoW and lead of the in-development Riot MMO before moving on to form his own studio, Fantastic Pixel Castle, which is making its own MMO codenamed 'Ghost.' Needless to say, he's had plenty of f
  
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• SanDisk unveils new portable storage solutions at CES to make creating on the go more a-peel-ing

  07-01-2025 16:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  SanDisk has been pretty busy - not only is it in the midst of receiving a new-fangled flashy logo, but the highly-recognizable tech brand, owned by Western Digital, has just unveiled a set of new storage solutions set to launch at this year's CES 2025 event.Dubbed the 'SanDisk Creator Series', this new range of portable SSDs, microSD cards, and USB flash drives is targeted towards buddying artists, content creators, and gamers alike. The set includes "tailored, professional-grade collection of p
  
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• Multiple movies, including Sonic 3 and Madame Web, are ineligible for Best Picture at the Oscars this year

  07-01-2025 16:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Awards season is now in full swing as we lead up to the 2025 Academy Awards. This year, Oscar eligibility criteria means that 323 feature films are able to be nominated for the various categories, but more than a third of those are out of the running for Best Picture.Confused? Well, the Academy has some pretty strict rules about what can and can't be nominated in their most prestigious category. These include benchmarks for diversity and inclusion as well as detailed theatrical release quotas.Ac
  
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• Marvel Rivals season 1 has "double the playable content of a regular season" and adds maps, heroes, balance changes, and more

  07-01-2025 15:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Marvel Rivals season 1 is starting this Friday, and it's a big one, offering "double the playable content of a regular season."In a new video with creative director Guangyun "Guangguang" Chen and lead combat designer Zhiyong, the pair share everything we can look forward to in the hero shooter's first proper season.First off, yes, there are buffs and nerfs, but don't worry, there's no role queue coming. "Ranged duelists [are] dominating lineups," says Zhiyong, so the team is "slightly toning dow
  
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• Razer is releasing a budget gaming chair, and it might actually be affordable for the average player

  07-01-2025 15:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Here's a crazy thought; a gaming chair from a known brand that doesn't cost as much as a modern graphics card. That seems to be the previously unattainable gap in the market that Razer is determined to fill this year, because it's come to CES 2025 with its cheapest-ever gaming seat.If you're like me and you're strangely nerdy about the makes, models, and prices of the best gaming chairs, you may be stopping here to ask me something. Is this new seat affordable by market standards, or is it affor
  
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• Get the Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth board game for just $88 right now

  07-01-2025 14:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth cooperative board game is going cheap right now so buckle up, because not idly do the deals of Lórien fall.You may have missed the December sales when the game was down to $71, but paying $87.99 at Amazon sure beats its $103 price tag at the start of last year. Our preferred price checking software reckons it's had a few dips in price this year, such as in late October time when it was around $81, but now we're looking at a steady discount f
  
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• This new Xbox controller looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but it could be one of the best gamepads of 2025

  07-01-2025 14:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you follow the news closely, you'll know that PlayStation files a lot of patents. Every other month, there seems to be a headline that says Sony will implement some weird and whacky features for its consoles, or create a new bit of hardware that looks totally incoherent next to the brand's existing lineup.If you're still waiting for the PlayStation Banana gamepad to sweep into our list of the best PC controllers though, I have some bad news for you. Most of the patents the company is awarded
  
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• Where to buy RTX 5070: all the retailers to check when mid-range GPUs launch next month

  07-01-2025 14:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Nvidia has just announced its new mid-range graphics card, and judging by the prices at the top end of the scale it looks like many are going to be looking to buy the RTX 5070 this generation. While the heavier cards hit the shelves on January 30, we'll be waiting until February for both the new RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti, with no specific pre-order or release date set.We do, however, know that the RTX 5070 will cost $549 / £549 and the RTX 5070 Ti comes in at $749 / £749. That's a goo
  
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• Florence Pugh reveals why she "can't do" roles like Midsommar again: "I’ve been broken for a long while afterwards"

  07-01-2025 14:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  Florence Pugh has delivered some of the best performances of the last decade, from Lady Macbeth to Little Women, but it seems some of them have taken a heavy toll on her."There have been some roles where I've given too much and I've been broken for a long while afterwards," she said during a recent interview on the Reign with Josh Smith podcast.Pugh particularly points at her stunning performance in Midsommar, where she played a grief-stricken woman who joins her toxic boyfriend on a trip to a S
  
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• Doom: The Dark Ages gets 12 seconds of new footage as Nvidia shows off its souped-up DLSS 4 visuals

  07-01-2025 13:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doom: The Dark Ages is easily one of the most exciting games on 2025's packed schedule, and some new details indicate that it might be one of the best looking, too. Nvidia has confirmed that it'll be DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) 4 enhanced, include immersive path tracing, and more if you use one of its newly announced graphics cards, and it's already given a sneak peak of what we can expect. This comes along with the reveal of Nvidia's shiny new GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards,
  
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• Hideo Kojima's favorite movies of 2024 include Dune 2, body horror The Substance, and anime Look Back – as well as some deep cuts you might not have expected

  07-01-2025 13:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima has shared his favorite movies of 2024, and the list might surprise you.Kojima is never shy about sharing his movie opinions on Twitter, with 2024 seeing him discuss Joker 2 and give a pretty damning verdict on Madame Web, along with many more film tweets besides.The video game maestro shared his picks for 2024 on social media, complete with graphics displaying the films' posters. His choices of movies were: Past Lives, The Teachers' Lounge, Dune 2, All of Us Strangers, Furiosa, La
  
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